Anniversary

The IIT Delhi connection turns 28.

Happy anniversary, folks! Evidently, there's something about ashtami weddings. :-)

Dig Deeper

I'm no less amazed today than I was a few years ago when I first started to appreciate the magnitude of our everyday outward abstraction of things which are so essentially and fundamentally human endeavours. On my office list, I have reduced into a few short words entire chains of command, processes, works-in-progress, physical activities, online activities and conversations, all of which easily have several dozen, if not hundreds, of people they impact directly. That these few words represent these microcosms is something I've always known, but now that I have the time to light a fire under one or more of these words by my simple action to do or not do something, I realise that what I'm contemplating is likely to have far-reaching and almost certainly unimaginable consequences. 

Staring

Observation: If a man is staring at another man, the second man won't stare at a woman that he would've otherwise stared at if the first man hadn't been there.

Objection 1: Because the second man would rather stare at the first man?

Answer: No, because he's conscious that what he's doing is shady and doesn't want other men to know that because of some unwritten universal bro code (not that the first man and second man in this - or any other such - scenario are 'bros' but please work with me here).

Objection 2: But if the assumption that all men are shady is right, then they could both go wink-wink and then stare at the woman together!

Answer: That's right. But - and it's an important but - I'm talking about situations where the first man has chosen to stare at the second man and not at the woman and has thus already made his moral choice. The second man knows - as all men know - that staring is wrong. They do it anyway because they think they can get away with it.

Objection 3: How do you know that the second man would've been staring at the woman anyway?

Answer: Because that's what men do. (Sad but true.)

Victory

I just had my 2013 version of the Austin 3:16 moment.

You sit there and you commit infringement and you evade service of documents and it didn't get you anywhere! Talk about your employer, talk about your settlement...Order 1 Rule 10(2) of the C.P.C. says I just impleaded your ass!  

Prophecy

One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready...